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of link-layer and MAC-layer mechanisms to achieve a very low power consumption: during idle listening the radio is switched off between 99.2% and 99.6% of the time. One unicast transmission typically adds between 0.07% and 1.2% additional radio time, depending on packet size. ContikiMAC uses the standard IEEE 802.15.4 message format and adds no additional headers. ContikiMAC is simple: it uses periodic two-shot channel sampling during idle listening to keep the radio on-time down. Transmissions are done with repeated transmissions until a link-layer ACK is received.